Post ARc8gfonEphnHbhtZI by kallisti@refusal.llc
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 (DIR) Post #ARblSpzUK3aXpg8vSK by anildash@me.dm
       2023-01-13T17:23:35Z
       
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       Okay, here's a remarkable thing about the fediverse: I was able to seamlessly move my followers to a new server, and the vast majority of them *never even noticed* that it happened. About 24 hours ago, I decided to move from mastodon[dot]cloud (because it had been bought up by sketchy new owners), and I came to @medium's new me.dm instance. At that time, I had 25,829 followers, and now less than 24 hrs later, I have 22,648 followers on this new account — without them having to do anything.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARblSrElgjPBhMIdua by anildash@me.dm
       2023-01-13T17:25:21Z
       
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       The entire migration process took me a couple of minutes (basically, you just tell your new account that you want to migrate from your old one, then tell your old account where you're going). Now, I think this may be one of the largest follower migrations in fediverse history, so there was a little bit of weirdness in some apps and the website in terms of getting a *ton* of notifications (tens of thousands of follows) but after that settled, it was smooth sailing. And invisible to followers.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARc3DcibBXRLV48cy0 by boyter@honk.boyter.org
       2023-01-13T20:46:25Z
       
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       @rmdes how does that work technically? Just movement of the pub/pri keys, follower list and redirects for everything?
       
 (DIR) Post #ARc3DdGd90f7Cc3o0m by silverpill@mitra.social
       2023-01-13T21:24:20.681999Z
       
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       @boyter @rmdes The server sends Move() activity to all followers. They un-follow the old account and follow the new account. Posts and keys are not moved.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARc6dMVOO3IubkvS0O by jeffcliff@shitposter.club
       2023-01-13T22:02:50.326494Z
       
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       @anildash @medium wasn't it the other way around, that mastodon.cloud's owners are buying *other* instances?
       
 (DIR) Post #ARc8gfonEphnHbhtZI by kallisti@refusal.llc
       2023-01-13T22:25:52.103614Z
       
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       @anildash @medium can i see your testicles?
       
 (DIR) Post #ARdZyHAAXJOhwuHcSe by kashhill@mastodon.social
       2023-01-14T14:42:48Z
       
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       @anildash @medium “me.dm” is a very clever rendering of that domain
       
 (DIR) Post #ARdZyHoE8NRLx91bto by anildash@me.dm
       2023-01-14T15:02:01Z
       
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       @kashhill @medium I’m told Ev was an advocate of it; no surprise as he’d gotten the original medium.com domain too.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARdZyIBcjO9h7hyIMq by wjmaggos@liberal.city
       2023-01-14T15:05:59Z
       
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       @anildash @kashhill @mediumhe's here too I think. @evhead
       
 (DIR) Post #ARdaKwggpVEn6dIviK by anildash@me.dm
       2023-01-14T15:10:03Z
       
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       @wjmaggos @kashhill @medium @evhead yeah but I assume he’ll have a me.dm account soon :)
       
 (DIR) Post #AS1AMtT1q64ygPDlI0 by charliebrownau@pieville.net
       2023-01-26T00:12:29Z
       
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       @anildash @medium Check out Write Freely instead of ((( MEDIUM ))) for blogginghttps://writefreely.org/https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely